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E. L. COOPER.

(Mo dew GATE.

Patented Aug. 2, 1887.-

MHEWESEBS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EZEKIEL'L. COOPER, OF CLARENCE, MISSOURI.

GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 367,367, dated August2, 188'7.

Application filed November 30, 1886. Serial No. 220,321.

(ModcL) To all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, EZEKIEL L. COOPER, a.

. citizen of the United States, residing atClarence, in the county ofShelby and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Gates; and I do hereby de clare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description-of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame. I

My invention relates to improvements in folding gates, the object ofwhich is to provide a cheap, simple, durable, and convenient device toserve as a folding gate, and one that may be opened or closed withoutdismounting from a vehicle. These objects I attain by means of thedevice illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming a part of thisspecib, to serve as rails; but any suitable material desired.

may be used. Said rods b are preferably provided with openings in theirends, and are all made of the same length, and are of 'any desirednumber, according to the height of gate The rods are held in place bybeing secured at their front ends to a cross-piece or plate, 0. Saidplate may be of any suitable material, preferably of iron, and isprovided with bolts I) for entering the openings in rods b and securin'gthem thereto, and also to serve as hinges for the rods 1) to Work uponas the gate is folded up or let down, as may be desired. The back endsof rods 5 are preferably secured to a plate, 0 but may be secured to thepost A by-means of bolts b, which are to serve as hinges for the backends of rods 12. v

The rods b are all made of the same length; but the back end of thelower rod is placed close to the front edge of the post or plate at theback of the gate and of the cross-piece at the front of the gate. Thetop rod is placed farther back on the post at the back of the gate andon the cross-piece at the front of the gate than thelower rod, and theother rods are placed on a diagonal line between the lower rod and thetop rod, so that when the gate is folded up it will be perpendicular andthe rods. be side by side.

' D is a trip-rod, and is provided witha loop,

d, at each end in the shape of an arc ofa circle, which extends upwardand backward from the rod .D, and is to receive the ends e e of thewheel-irons E E to operate the same. Triprod D is provided with anoffset, LP, in its middle, which is placed at right angles with thelower end of loops cl in the ends of the triprod D. Said offset (1 isprovided with aring, d for receiving the bottom rod of the gate, whichis made to work easily back and forth upon said rod, and is for thepurpose of pushing the gate up and drawing it down. Said trip-rod issecured in place by any suitable means. E E are wheel-irons, and areprovided with two offsets, e 6 in each rod. Said offsets are placed atright angles with each other. The ends 6 c are parallel with the offsetse in the wheel-irons E E, so that when the gate is closed the ends 6 eand the set-offs e will be in an upright position and the setoffs 0 willlie on the ground. These irons are secured in place by any suitablemeans, and are placed across the driveway each side of the gate.

My invention is operated by driving the front wheel of the vehicle overone of the set offs, c and by so doing the ends 0 e of the wheel-irons EE will press downward and'backward on the back side of loops d and drawthe offset 03 to an upright position. The offset pushes upward on thelower rod of the gate and folds the gate. To close the gate, the wheelof the vehicle is made torun over one of the opposite offsets, 0 whichwas turned upright by the opening of the gate, thus drawing for ward onthe frontsideofloop d, throwing down the set-offd in trip-rod D, andclosing the gate.

I amaware of the construct-ion shown in Letters Patent Nos. 248, 807 and218,826, and make no claim thereto.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. The combination, with avertically-foldat its ends to engage arms 0 e of the wheeling gate, of atrip-rod, D, having an offset in irons, and with an offset in its middleconthe middle connecting it to the gate, and areneeted by a ring to thelower bar of the gate, shaped loops at its ends, which engage wheelallsubstantially as shown and described.

5 irons E E, all substantially as shown and de- In testimony whereofIal'fixmysignatnrein 15 scribed. presence of two witnesses.

2. The combination, with a vertically-fold- EZEKIEL L. COOPER. ing gate,constructed as shown, of double- Witnesses: cranked wheel-irons E E,having arms 0 e, R. H. JONES,

To and a trip rod provided with arc-shaped loops \V. O. FROST.

